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Too many mobs in large caves

Since the caves and cliffs update I am finding that exploring the wonderful new caves is overshadowed by the miserable experience of fighting off hoards of mobs that don't end. Since these caves can be so large, it is very difficult (and expensive) to stay on top of lighting the dark areas with torches. I think the amount of mobs spawning really needs to be toned down, I am not having fun crafting a new iron sword every 20 minutes (for real) and using stacks of coal for torches every 30 minutes. The update was/is awesome, but I am agitated by the egregious amount of mobs stopping me from mining and exploring. Perhaps limiting the number of possible spawns at one time in a given chunk could help this. I love this game and I have been playing it for 10 years, but I am drifting away from it more and more every time I enter a cave for materials and get obliterated by the hoards of mobs that weren't around before the update. Please please please fix this Mojang.

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    I absolutely agree with you. Especially in the minecraft realms. I have noticed an endless wave of hostile mobs spawning dark area. It takes always from the fun of exploring the game for myself. I am complete unable to explore an area without completely lighting up the area first. If I don’t and try to kill some they will spawn faster then I can kill them. An easy fix would be allowing the player the adjust the hostile mob spawning cap on bedrock.

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    I absolutely agree. I just picked up Minecraft for the first time in a few years and it's not fun at all to play. Starting out in a new game I'm dying every 10 minutes before I can even get the basics. It's so frustrating and I'm about ready to put it back on the shelf until something gets fixed.

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    I agree with this whole heartedly. Either you have to go into caves and die repeatedly just to make armor, for a creepee to come and obliterate you. They spawn way to fast to kill. The skeletons have become absolutely ridiculous and just bounce me around like a ragdoll if there's more then 2, creeper spawn rate is absurd, as well as zombies. And yeah I can find iron in mountain areas butnif I don't spawn in one I have to look for over an hour if I'm lucky. Now I also ALWAYS have to make a bed asap otherwise you won't survive the night right off the bat. Just lower mob spawn rate in caves and I'd be happy. Above ground spawn rafe is normal. Why are caves triple. I don't even enjoy the game anymore. I only play solo cause no wifi. And I feel like you made this into a team based game only now.